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Recent Basic Accounting Articles

How To Find Your Company's Cash Stash

How can you reduce the time it takes to send out invoices? Be the paperwork, advises Sue Gillman of consulting firm Aveus. Pretend you are a document on a jo...  Read more

Need Cash?

Try looking inward.  Read more

How to Sell an Invoice On the Receivables Exchange

There's a new way to sell receivables: on an exchange.  Read more

Follow the Numbers

It's the best way to spot problems before they become life-threatening.  Read more

SOX Reprieve for Small Business

The SEC will review rules requiring external checks on financial controls at smaller companies.  Read more

Big-Business Printing, Small-Business Prices

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

What Are You, a Bank?

You probably lend your customers more money than you realize. Have you checked lately?  Read more

Point and Click Your Way to an Organized Balance Sheet

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Looking for a New Way to Woo Customers? Try Birthday Presents

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

How to Get Customers to Pay Upfront 

Wouldn't it be great if your customers actually paid in advance? Unfortunately, for many small-business owners, that's easier said than done. But with the...  Watch video

Small Business Recordkeeping 

When it comes to taxes, many people simply toss receipts into a shoebox. But for business owners, good recordkeeping is essential. Inc. Expert Barbara Wel...  Watch video

What to Do if You're Audited 

A tax audit can be one of a small business owners most terrifying experiences. Inc. Expert Barbara Weltman gives you some information that might save you ...  Watch video

Around the Water Cooler, Employees Buzz about Minimum Wage

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Tired of Your Office? Nothing a Free Makeover Won't Cure

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Never Miss a Paycheck: SurePayroll at the Inc. 500 

Michael Alter's payroll service works with thousands of small-business clients. What are the biggest issues entrepreneurs are facing today?   Watch video

Cracking the Code

Credit card processing bills are a jumble. Here's how to read yours.  Read more

For Small Businesses, an Annual Nightmare

Three out of four business owners say tax season cuts into their day-to-day operations, according to a new study.  Read more

Winning the Numbers Game

Software to boost the bottom line.  Read more

Last Year's Predictions in Review

A look back at the trends we expected to see in 2006.  Read more

Growth in Real GDP Slows

The real Gross Domestic Product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property -- increased at an annual rate of 2 percent in the third q...  Read more

Smart Questions for Your Accountant [Audio] 

Forget holiday shopping. Articles editor Larry Kanter explains why now is the time to huddle with your CPA and find some year-end tax breaks.   Watch video

Small Firms Get Break on Accounting Rules

The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to ease parts of Sarbanes-Oxley considered too burdensome.  Read more

Smart Questions for Late-Paying Clients

It's the end of the year, and all you want to do is close your books. The problem? All those customers who still owe you money. Here's how to ask them to cou...  Read more

Small Businesses More Likely to Be Audited

As part of a broader enforcement effort, the IRS increased audits of S corporations by 34 percent this year.  Read more